The SAP standard application benchmark performed on August 17, 1998, by HP in Cupertino, CA, USA was certified on August 18, 1998 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 2,500 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.97 seconds

Throughput: 12,530 SAPS (752,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 251,000 fully processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.129 (dialog) / 0.249 (update)

CPU utilization database server: 99%

CPU utilization application servers: 63% (dia: 66%, upd: 55%, msg/enq: 45%)

Operating System (database server): Windows NT 4.0 SP3

Operating System (application serv.): Windows NT 4.0 SP3

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.4

R/3 Release: 3.1 H

Total disk space: 580 GB

Configuration:

1 Database Server: HP Netserver LXr 8000, 4 processors SMP, Pentium II Xeon 400 MHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 2 GB main memory

Application Servers (Total: 17 HP Netserver):

12 Dialog Server: Model LXr 8000, Pentium II Xeon 400 MHz, 1 MB L2 cache ,

4 processors, 1 GB main memory

1 Dialog Server: Model LX Pro, Pentium Pro 200 MHz, 512 KB L2 cache ,

4 processors, 512 MB main memory

3 Update Server: Model LXr 8000, Pentium II Xeon 400 MHz, 1 MB L2 cache ,

4 processors, 1 GB main memory

1 Msg/Enq Serv.: Model LX Pro, Pentium II 400 MHz, 512 KB L2 cache ,

2 processors, 512 MB main memory